Feasgar Math, a chairdean!

Good afternoon, friends!

Fàilte gu mo tiodhlach-spèis air...

Welcome to my presentation air...

innleadaireachd beartaich.

harness engineering.

Is mise
Cory Brown

I am Cory Brown

Tha mi innleadair bathair-bog,

I am a Software Engineer,

agus manaidsear...

and manager...

aig companaidh leis an ainm Voze.

at a company called Voze.

Tha beagan Gaidhlig agam fhathast,

I speak a little Gaighlig too,

agus tha mi a' smaoineachadh gu bheil me a fàs beagan nas fheàrr.

and I think I am getting a little better.

Tapadh leibh airson leigeil leam a bhith a’ cleachdadh còmhla ribh thairis air na beagan bhliadhnachan a dh’fhalbh.

Thank you for letting me practice with you these last few years.

A-nis, air adhart!

And now, onward!

Harness
Engineering

For Me

For Us

What even is?

The Model

  • huge function
  • defined by billions of numeric parameters
  • trained on text
  • predicts the next token

Everything “intelligent” it does—reasoning, style, coding help—is emergent behavior from that next-token prediction.

What emerges is incredible!
Ground breaking!
Revolutionary!

But it's not intellegence.

It is raw,
chaotic power.

Under-directed

Shape the

ouput

What do I mean?

Mirthful
Metaphore

Amusing
Alegory

Playful
Parable

Artificial
Wind

Demo
Time

Naïve Approach

Bigger Naïve Approach

Harness

Harness

Harness

Harness

OpenAW

Harness

So that's
a Harness

Layers

https://medium.com/@shanewang199512/2026-agent-harness-the-game-changer-for-ai-applications-if-youre-not-the-model-you-re-the-e49722a23967

Personal Harness

~/AGENTS.md, hooks, rules

Corporate Harness

Skills, MCP, Lints, Tests

Product Harness

Codex, Claude Code

Model Harness

ChatGPT, Claude

LLM

Personal Harness

~/AGENTS.md, hooks, rules

Corporate Harness

Skills, MCP, Lints, Tests

Product Harness

Codex, Claude Code

Model Harness

ChatGPT, Claude

LLM

80/20

product

gardening

Improving CLAUDE.md

CSS skills

If it can be linted,
it should be linted.

If it should be tested,
it must be tested.

employ deterministic guardrails with hooks.

AGENTS.md

Skills.

Rules.

Build
your
own
tools.

Tapadh Leibh!

Thank you!